www.washingtontimes.com Topics: Juan Zaratehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/juan-zarate/?utm_medium=RSS2016-09-14T19:40:10-04:00Islamic State financing needs a crackdown, U.S. expert says2016-09-14T19:40:10-04:00Guy Taylorhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/sep/14/islamic-state-financing-requires-crackdown-us-expe/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p><strong>NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW:</strong></p> <p>The Obama administration has dented the Islamic State's money-making operations with airstrikes against the terror group's oil-smuggling empire and blacklisting its known financial facilitators from the international banking system.</p> <p>But far more needs to be done, a former top Treasury Department official argues, to disrupt the group's use ...U.S. corporate giants fear blowback from sanctions on Russia over Ukraine2014-05-13T20:52:09-04:00Guy Taylorhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/13/us-corporate-giants-fear-blowback-from-sanctions-o/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>The Obama administration claims it can use economic sanctions to punish Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, but the strategy has quickly run into problems, say analysts, who note that too aggressive a move by the White House could result in blowback on major American companies with close ties to the ...China will surpass U.S. in oil imports; shift in supply and demand could transform geopolitics2013-08-12T21:50:08-04:00Patrice Hillhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/12/china-will-surpass-us-in-oil-imports/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>China will become the world's largest importer of crude oil in October, surpassing the U.S. for the first time as the Asian giant's rising consumer class of drivers grows increasingly thirsty for fuel, the U.S. Energy Information Administration is projecting.</p> <p>China already is the largest importer of oil from the ...Islamic militants suspected in Russia airport bombing2011-01-24T20:43:15-05:00Eli Lakehttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jan/24/islam-militants-suspected-in-russia-airport-bombin/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS<p>As Russian authorities sift through the wreckage of the Moscow airport attack, the world's attention will be drawn to the Muslim separatists who experts suspect carried out the Monday bombing.</p> <p>Known as Imarat Kavkaz, or the Caucasus Emirate, the group was formed in 2007 with the goal of bringing Islamic ...